SL. NO PARTICULARS PAGE NO. I. Introduction 3 II. Objectives of the Board 4-5 III. Mission Blue Revolution 5-10 Projects Implemented Under Blue Revolution and Outcomes in the Year 2017- 10-22 IV. 18 Projects Implemented Under NFDB Activities and Outcomes in the Year 2017- 23-44 V. 18 VI. Human Resource Development Activities 44-46 VII. Meetings, Seminars and Workshops 46-50 50-54 VIII. Conducting/Participating in Fish Festivals/Melas Celebration of (1) Independence Day, (2) Republic Day, (3) National Fish 54-57 IX. Farmers Day, (4) World Fisheries Day, And (5) Hindi Divas Samaroh 58-61 X. Swachhata Pakhwada Scheme Publications & Documentation: (i) Newsletters, Guidelines and Books 61-63 XI. 64-69 (ii) Success Stories 70-113 (iii) Performance of States 114-115 XII. Members of the Governing Body 115-116 XIII. Members of the Executive Committee 117 XIV. Chief Executive of the Board 118 XV. Year Wise Budget Allocation 119-120 XVI. Right to Information Act XVII. Question on NFDB in Lok Sabha / Rajya Sabha 121 XVII. Organization Chart 122 XIX. NFDB Officers & Staff 123 XX. Independent Auditors Report 124-146 XXI. Accounts 2 I. INTRODUCTION Fish touch our lives in countless ways in terms of providing food, nutrition, livelihood, employment, recreation, and many more. It comes from two main modes of production systems: Capture Fishery (capturing of wild fish from marine and freshwater) and Culture Fishery (also known as Aquaculture). Aquaculture in India is an important economic activity and a flourishing sub-sector with varied resources and potentials. The fishery sector contributes 5.23% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the agriculture sector and 0.91% to the total GDP of the country. The vibrancy of the sector can be visualized by overwhelming 17-fold increase that India achieved in fish production in six and a half decades, i.e. from 0.75 million metric tons (MMT) in 1950-51 to 12.6 MMT during 2017- 18. India ranks second in global aquaculture production. At present India is contributing 6.3% of the global fish production and 5% of the global fish trade. Starting from a purely traditional activity in the fifties, aquaculture over the years has transformed to commercial enterprises opening considerable potentials for rural development, domestic nutritional security, employment generation, gender mainstreaming as well as export earnings. Aquaculture has the potential to contribute many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of UNO covering poverty, hunger and feed security; protection, restoration and management of inland water resources, ecosystem and biodiversity; economic growth, employment and decent work; consumption and production; etc. India exported 1,377,244 MT of fish and fishery products worth an all-time high of USD7.08 billion in 2017-18 as against 1,134,948 MT and USD 5.78 billion a year earlier, registering an impressive growth of over 20%. Over the years, the fishery sector of India has witnessed 3 major transformations, shifting of focus (i) from capture fisheries to culture fisheries, (ii) from empirical farming to knowledge-based farming and (iii) from sustenance farming to commercial farming. At present, the fishery sector is engaging over 14.50 million people at the primary level and many more along the value chain. Nevertheless, the national average annual consumption of fish and fishery products in India is very less, about 5.00 kg; whereas for the fish eating population it is around 9-10 kg. This is because, about 40% of the Indian population does not eat fish as they are vegetarian and the remaining 60% though consumes fish, majority of them eat occasionally. However, over the year, the consumption of fish is increasing steadily due to higher disposable income and growing awareness on fish as health food among the people. The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), established in 2006, is an autonomous organization under the administrative control of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Govt. of 3 India. It was set up to realize the untapped potential of fisheries sector in inland and marine, fish culture, capture, processing & marketing of fish, and accelerate the overall growth of fisheries sector with the application of modern tools of research & development. In 12 years of its existence, NFDB has taken up numerous multifarious developmental activities which have undoubtedly brought visible positive changes in productivity, production and post-harvest operations of the fishery sector. To accelerate the growth further, the fishery sector needs to adopt new strategies with time, situation and context. Foreseeing the high potential in fishery sector, the Hon’ble Prime Minister in 2016 called for “Blue Revolution”. To realize this vision, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries in the same year launched the Scheme named as “Blue Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Fisheries” with a total central outlay of Rs. 3000 crores by merging all the ongoing schemes in fishery sector. To remain relevant in the changing scenario, NFDB is also evolving itself to handle a gamut of proactive and pivotal responsibilities under blue revolution. NFDB is scrutinizing the proposals received from the States/UTs under blue revolution as per the national priorities. NFDB is also gearing up to implement some key projects directly in emerging and innovative areas like Cage Culture, quality seed production, Value chain Development in fisheries etc. which have good potential. The successful implementation of projects will effectively demonstrate these frontier technologies to farmers and entrepreneurs for wider adoption. II. Objectives of the Board . To bring major activities relating to fisheries and aquaculture for focused attention and professional management . To coordinate activities pertaining to fisheries undertaken by different Ministries/Departments in the Central Government and also coordinate with the State/Union Territory Governments . To improve production, processing, storage, transport and marketing of the products of capture and culture fisheries . To achieve sustainable management and conservation of natural aquatic resources including the fish stocks . To apply modern tools of research and development including biotechnology for optimizing production and productivity from fisheries . To provide modern infrastructure mechanisms for fisheries and ensure their effective management and optimum utilization . To generate substantial employment 4 . To train and empower women in the fisheries sector . To enhance contribution of fish towards food and nutritional security. III. Mission Blue Revolution The vision of mission Blue Revolution is creating an enabling environment for integrated development of the full potential of fisheries of the country, along with substantially improvement in the income status of fishers and fish farmers keeping in view the sustainability, bio-security and environmental concerns. It focuses on tapping the full production potential and enhance productivity substantially from aquaculture and fisheries resources, both inland and marine. It targets to achieve the growth rate of about 8% annually on a sustainable basis over a period of 5 years and to achieve the projected fish production set at 15 million metric tons by 2022. This is sought to be achieved through seven point Strategies: (i) resource maximization with productivity enhancement, (ii) infrastructure creation, (iii) modernization through new technologies, (iv) thrust on export, (v) employment generation, (vi) fish farmer welfare, (vii) ensuring food and nutritional security. The wider adoption frontier technologies like cage culture, RAS (recirculation aquaculture system), biofloc, quality seed production, value chain development etc. will facilitate the process. The value chain development involves: environmental sustainability, certified inputs (seed, feed, etc.), better management practices, traceability, hygienic handling, processing and value-addition in a certified plant, shipping, and delivery of wholesome products to consumers. To make blue revolution more robust, where it is appropriate, an inclusive business approach is created to build value for aqua-farmers, together with a suitable enabling environment. Enabling factors include environmentally suitable sites for aquaculture, farmer numbers and geography (scattered farmers are more difficult to manage than farmers in clusters) and the presence of infrastructure that allow access to input and output markets. Policy and institutional orientation of private and public sectors towards aqua-farmers play a crucial role. Both private and public sectors are pro-actively engaged with commercial aquaculture, particularly in areas with large numbers of farmers. Blue Revolution, the Neel Kranti Mission has the vision to achieve economic prosperity of the country and the fishers and fish farmers as well as contribute towards food and nutritional security through full potential utilization of water resources for fisheries development in a sustainable manner, keeping in view the bio-security and environmental concerns. The Neel Kranti Mission, 2016 (NKM 16), being the year in which the Vision has been given by the Prime Minister will have multi-dimensional approach to all activities concerned with development of the fisheries sector as modern world class industry in 5 India. It will focus on tapping the resources of full production potential and enhance productivity substantially